While it’s been an unconventional offseason, we’re just days away from the Chicago Bears returning to the practice field for the start of training camp.
The official report date is Tuesday, but according to The Athletic’s Adam Jahns, Bears veterans will report Saturday for physicals and their first round of COVID-19 testing. That will be followed by a second round of testing and the hope that they can begin practices on Tuesday.
Per the agreement between the NFL and NFLPA, players will receive daily COVID-19 testing for the first two weeks of training camp. But before they’re permitted to enter the team facility, they need to have more than one negative test.
Jahns continued by noting that there’s an expectation that there will be some positive tests given the states where some players are coming from. But the Bears will handle that accordingly with quarantines.
Rookies were permitted to report to camp on Tuesday, and Chicago’s entire rookie class signed that same day and have since reported and had COVID-19 testing.
If all goes to plan, the Bears will begin conditioning and practices on the official report date on Tuesday.
